Old Steel Town Looks to Past and Future to Chart a New Course

Pipe maker, marijuana producer promise to bring much-needed jobs

MCKEESPORT, Pa.—Officials in this faded industrial city south of Pittsburgh, once famous for churning out steel pipe at a massive complex that choked the sky with smoke, are looking to the past and future for a revival.

A pipe manufacturer plans to reopen an old mill and a medical marijuana producer wants to put a growing facility on a former factory site after the state gave the industry a green light.